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Category Archives: Ideas
Mostly, we’re just full of…
Another in a series from Dave Umbongo reflecting on how humans and voices humans might hear are alike…
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How privilege works…
Toby Morris’ excellent Pensilsword comic strip on a plate telling parallel stories of two lives to illustrate how privilege works… More on Toby Morris: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate
Posted in Crazy World, Ideas, inequality
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William Blake
William Blake, poet artist, visionary, as considered eccentric, mad by contemporaries saw angels, conversed with spirits, saw visions as real as if you were stood in front of him. “His was a world in which all of life: imagination, reason, … Continue reading
An end to ‘doctor knows best’
From the UK – in 2009, the NHS [National Health Service] released a legally binding charter setting out rights and responsibilities for those who use and work in the system. Seven years later – just last week the Royal College … Continue reading
The line between…
The line between hallucinating and perceiving is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as choosing the … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Difference and Diversity, Emancipate yourself..., Ideas
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Moone Boy
Martin Kenny Dalgleish Moone is the kind of young boy who’d care for an injured chaffinch – or even a dead chaffinch believing its injured- and who has a constant companion, imaginary friend, in the shape of Chris O’Dowd. Many … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Difference and Diversity, Ideas, manamana, mental illness? or...
Tagged Chris O'Dowd, imaginary freind, Moone Boy
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Medicating a Prophet
With the kind of fervour that only attaches to false certainty we tell ourselves that which we call “psychosis” is a thing separate from anything else, a thing separate from us, a thing we understand and a thing we know … Continue reading
Posted in Difference and Diversity, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, Ideas, making sense of "mental illlness"
Tagged drugs, prophet, psychosis
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More to dying than meets the eye
Anyone over a certain age has likely had the kind of experience of a family member having died and being laid out in the poshest room of the house for a couple of days. These days that’s not how we … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, hearing voices, human diversity, Ideas
Tagged deathbed, vision
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fish on a hook
I think a lot of us are wriggling.
That’s seen as a kind of illness without the vision of the hooks that we’re bound by.
So it seems that our behaviour is very crazy, when in context it isn’t.
Mike Lawson Continue reading
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